·JPAL has a new paper out on how to compare cost-effectiveness across interventions, with applications to education policy. This is going on my “to read” pile and I may blog about it in due course, but the pile is a bit large at the moment so thought I’d link to it now (h/t (@JPAL_Global)

·An interesting interview with Richard Thaler on the InDecision blog – “More generally, I think psychologists are just publishing too many small papers. Look at the number of papers Kahneman and Tversky wrote that created and defined the field we now call judgment and decision making. The judgment stuff was really 3 papers plus the Science recapitulation. Then came prospect theory. Four blockbusters that led to a Nobel Prize. Not enough for tenure these days!”

·On the Let’s Talk Development blog, Andrew Beath and co-authors provide early results from a randomized experiment on a CDD program in Afghanistan finding some evidence of greater acceptance of female participation in public affairs.